As the event was going on, Uribe defended the military deal with the US while the other presidents debated it, the local twittosphere expressed their views, took positions, and made jokes as if they were watching a football match.

It prompted a bit of a quick whip-around in the twittosphere about the abundance of attention paid to the 1939-45 period by both Hollywood and the videogame industry (to the point where it has now become kind of a joke).